Manchester City 3 – 1 Manchester United, 2002/03 – Football Research Archive

Manchester City 3 – 1 Manchester United

Source OpenFootballUpdated 23 Oct 2026, 10:40 BSTSource changed 27 May 2026Kickoff 9 Nov 2002, 12:15 GMT

Manchester City

3 – 1Half time 2 – 1

Manchester United

Match statistics

According to football-data.co.uk. Referee: P Durkin.

Aggregate match statistics according to football-data.co.uk
Statistic	Manchester City	Manchester United
Shots	11	9
Shots on target	6	6
Corners	0	9
Fouls committed	12	16
Yellow cards	1	2
Red cards	0	0

Yellow cards exclude the first yellow when a player is sent off for a second yellow. Missing values are not held.

Source file, line 126; read 16 Oct 2026, 06:46 BST.

Kickoff

9 Nov 2002, 12:15 GMT

Published as 12:15 Europe/London

Ground

Maine Road

Manchester City's home ground on that date, from its ground history. The source does not give the venue.

Attendance

34,649

According to Wikipedia

Referee

Matchday 13

Goals

According to “2002–03 Manchester United F.C. season”

7′GoalOle Gunnar SolskjærManchester United

Scorers are listed for Manchester United only: the article gives no scorers for the other side, or they do not add up to its score.

According to “2002–03 Manchester City F.C. season”

5′GoalNicolas AnelkaManchester City1 – 0
8′GoalOle Gunnar SolskjærManchester United1 – 1
26′GoalShaun GoaterManchester City2 – 1
51′Goal

According to Wikipedia: the scorers and minutes in the clubs' season articles, shown because each article's score equals this archive's and the scorers add up to it. The two clubs' articles list them differently, so both are shown. Own goals are listed under the side they counted for.

Includes data from Wikipedia (“2002–03 Manchester United F.C. season”, revision 1366449781, read 16 Oct 2026; “2002–03 Manchester City F.C. season”, revision 1368537558, read 16 Oct 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikipedia is edited by volunteers; the archive treats it as a secondary source and checks it against its own records where it can.

Coverage

What this archive holds for this match

Held: the result, aggregate match statistics (shots, corners, fouls), goalscorers and minutes (according to Wikipedia), attendance (according to Wikipedia). Not held: full event data, team sheets, bookings, match officials, venue. Absence here is not zero.

Sources

Result: OpenFootball
Scorers, attendance, referee: English Wikipedia, the clubs' season articles (secondary source, CC BY-SA 4.0), each checked against the stored result before use
Data last updated: 23 Oct 2026, 10:40 BST (the archive's last successful import)
Source file last changed: 27 May 2026
This record last changed: 15 Oct 2026, 07:18 BST
Last correction: None

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